Showing posts with label Hudswell Clarke - 16mm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hudswell Clarke - 16mm. Show all posts
Thursday, September 18, 2025

Ugly loco hauls skip wagons

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  All finished, it was time last week to take the Hudsell Clarke for a run on the club track, and stick it on the head of a skip wagon train...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

New number

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  James posted, " Wouldn't 4 be a more appropriate number in that livery? Then you could use it for Thunderbird services." And...
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Tuesday, September 09, 2025

Ex-works photo

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  With the sideframes on, driving controls fitted, and a nice big numeral on the side, the Hudswell Clarke is looking pretty good in my opin...
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Monday, September 08, 2025

Switch upgrade

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  In the end, I decided that I couldn't live with just an on/off switch in the loco. Admittedly, this was partly driven by being able to...
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Tuesday, September 02, 2025

Wasp striped bufferbeam

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  Wasp stripes - done.  Last week's advice about using masking tape passed me by, because by the time I'd read it, this was all done...
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Thursday, August 28, 2025

Yellow

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  I know that PS Models show their loco in industrial grey, but I've decided I want to paint mine yellow. That's an industrial colou...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Ugly loco - first run

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  Time to give the loco a blast on the club track. As you can see, it runs well, but slowly. The 90-yard circuit took almost exactly 5 minut...
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Thursday, August 21, 2025

Ugly wiring

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All the wiring materials are included in the Sharples kit. That is a 2-cell AAA battery box, bit of wire, and a switch.  The modeller just h...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Motor into the chassis

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  Back to the Hudswell Clarke, with the motor dropping into the chassis. It's a tight fit, but that means we're not going to need an...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Ugly chassis

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  The Hudsell Clarke chassis is easy enough to build. The modeller has to knock out a couple of tiny blanking plates in the floor to allow t...
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Monday, July 28, 2025

An ugly locomotive, just how I like 'em

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  I love an ugly loco, and so when I saw Phil Sharple's kit for this Hudswell Clarke , at the 16mm show last year, I wanted to buy it on...
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